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1023 Articles match "2009","Services"
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Santa Monica-based Image Metrics , a developer of facial animation software and services, has raised $8.0M for fiscal 2009. in funding and gone public through a reverse merger. According to Image Metrics, it has entered into an exchange offer with International Cellular Industries, an OTC BB firm traded as ICLA, to become a pubicly traded company. Image Metrics said that ICLA will change its name to Image
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Disney is working with HandsOn Network to bring you amazing volunteer opportunities to which you can lend your much-needed services. The Orange County meeting is new for 2009, and while the following is true for the LA meeting the OC one is probably similar: You pay as you walk in, meet the organizers, get a name tag, fill a plate from the buffet, and then find a seat, family style, with the other approximately 100 networkers. Its success in New York quickly Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand reported strong 2009 performance, saying Thursday afternoon that the firm had a 64 percent growth in its client base in 2009, and an 83 percent increase in users from December 2008. million users of its service, which is used for learning and talent management in companies. The firm said it now has 3.3 No actual financials were disclosed by the company, which is privately held.
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Monday, October 19, 2009
I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Undoubtedly, this post will reach far more than that. While I will continue to do presentations, there is a real question of which is the better use of time. Blogging Tactics In the presentation, I spent a fair bit of time discussing some different things you might want to do as a service professional just getting started. I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Not long ago I had the pleasure of meeting someone dedicated to and passionate about customer service, whom I’ll refer to as “The Restaurateur.” We spoke at length and I drank up his insights, and couldn’t help but think to relate them to IT Service. Generally, IT Service provides a Means to an End. What is it the customer really wants? It depends, but it’s certainly not that some SLA is met.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Great post by John Shiple. He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application
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Monday, November 2, 2009
They describe the company as the eHarmony of careers, clothes, jobs, college, tutoring services, doctors, service companies, investments, etc. Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. In fact, you can get a good idea of these various things by just searching on Google for "eHarmony of" startup . Each of these startup ideas has at it's core a matching algorithm that reduces the friction between a consumer and some need.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
The same Friday as the LA CTO Forum with Mark Suster, I presented to a group of about 40-50 mostly service providers on use of social media to build your reputation and grow your business. This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I want to take you through a bit of what brought me here, because I think it will help explain what I mean by visible networking. Networking Events – Questionable Return on Your Time Last week I posted about
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Follow up with compliments on their writing and get some emails going back and forth, and then pitch your product or service.
“If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Driving traffic to your website is a formula that can be reverse engineered.
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Media optimization is starting to become a headline buzz word in 2009 as the recession drags into the near year. If you are a savvy agency, advertiser or publisher and you are not using a platform or service to optimize your paid search, display and landing pages, you are getting behind the curve. Optimization is one solution to cutting costs that will virtually guarantee a return on your advertising investment if executed properly. Advertisers are demanding accountability and performance in this economic downturn and are increasingly moving toward performance based arrangements
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Monday, October 26, 2009
In 2003, Siamak Taghaddos and his friend, David Hauser, launched a voicemail service. As of May 2009, we became Grasshopper. And that’s exactly what our service does for entrepreneurs like you: gives you the tools to propel your small business forward."
A lot of people came up to us and said 'why don't you offer VoIP service? If you like my interview, please vote for it on my favorite news site. --Andrew Andrew
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
If we tried to do many different things all at the same time, we’d have to address the needs of different groups, market to different communities and deal with service providers in different categories. We also have our developers and the user-interface designers participate in the customer service process. This is the story of an idea that started out as a series of conversations on message boards and quickly became a marketplace that facilitated $5 million in design work.
What I’m most eager for you to see are the steps the founders took to ensure that their new
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